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SAVING THE WORLD. ONE MURDER AT A TIME. Edward Zero is the perfect execution machine - a spy who breaks the rules to get things done. When a stolen device appears in the center of a long-running conflict, Zero comes to retrieve it. The problem is, the device is inside a living, breathing, bio-modified terrorist and there's an entire army after it.

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Great start to this series. Kot's style is very focused and spare, and leaves a lot of the heavy lifting to the visuals. Luckily Michael Walsh's art is up to the task; his style is also quite spare, but his grasp of visual storytelling is better than many pencilers working today.

This is the type of black ops story that Rucka loves to tell, but it swims a bit more in the blood, guts, and viscera of special forces work. I didn't read Kot's short-but-well-loved run on Suicide Squad, but here I definitely saw the talent people were lauding him for there.

I'm wondering if the first arc will be all about Zero telling the child assassin his story. From what I understand the book has a rotating art team, correct?

Overall, this is an excellent debut that matches and--in some ways--exceeds some of the best Image action/adventure books on the stands like Saga and Lazarus.

Amazingly solid debut, and if you didn't at least read Change before this let the stink of shame be on you until you buy the black-covered tpb. Kot can out-write media darlings twice his age, like Millar or even Morrison these days. His comics, his blogs, his photostreams, and everything else, Kot is bursting with ideas and acute observations about the world and the grim socio-economic future we seem locked into. Comics are lucky to have him (nice work, DC!).

One of the best parts about Zero is how that well-traveled worldview and futurist way of thinking is so deftly used to build Zero #1's characters and near-future world, and it's done without feeling exposition-heavy in the least bit. Structurally such a strong first issue of anything, with no narrative space or page space wasted--even the inside front and back covers are used as the first and last pages of the story!

Victorian Squid wrote:Amazingly solid debut, and if you didn't at least read Change before this let the stink of shame be on you until you buy the black-covered tpb. Kot can out-write media darlings twice his age, like Millar or even Morrison these days. His comics, his blogs, his photostreams, and everything else, Kot is bursting with ideas and acute observations about the world and the grim socio-economic future we seem locked into. Comics are lucky to have him (nice work, DC!).

One of the best parts about Zero is how that well-traveled worldview and futurist way of thinking is so deftly used to build Zero #1's characters and near-future world, and it's done without feeling exposition-heavy in the least bit. Structurally such a strong first issue of anything, with no narrative space or page space wasted--even the inside front and back covers are used as the first and last pages of the story!

Victorian Squid wrote:Amazingly solid debut, and if you didn't at least read Change before this let the stink of shame be on you until you buy the black-covered tpb. Kot can out-write media darlings twice his age, like Millar or even Morrison these days. His comics, his blogs, his photostreams, and everything else, Kot is bursting with ideas and acute observations about the world and the grim socio-economic future we seem locked into. Comics are lucky to have him (nice work, DC!).

One of the best parts about Zero is how that well-traveled worldview and futurist way of thinking is so deftly used to build Zero #1's characters and near-future world, and it's done without feeling exposition-heavy in the least bit. Structurally such a strong first issue of anything, with no narrative space or page space wasted--even the inside front and back covers are used as the first and last pages of the story!

10/10

Then I will be sure to read change this weekend.

doombug wrote:You really are the george carlin of the outhouse. that's fucking hilarious.

doombug wrote:and yeah, Yoni called it.

I feel like a condemned building with a brand new flag pole.- Les Paul

From the on set - the child assassin and story-teller hooked me. The flashback fight scenes were extremely well choreographed (and brutal). The hunt for the tech and what our hero (?) does in pursuit of it is exciting despite not really knowing a whole lot of of the why's (I assume they'll come).

Zizek and Cooke, when we first meet them were boring ops overseers that initially felt out of place - but with their next scene (which I sure didn't see cuming) was a nice twist.

Overall this is a great book but I do have one fault with it... The story-teller sitting on the Dover Cliffs is basically telling the kid (and us) his tale, which oddly includes fight details he was never witness too. He tells of Zizek & Cook lying on the floor (again something he had no way of knowing). While the art of successful story-telling is embellishment, some of these details would just be utterly unnecessary. It's a minor quibble but I kept thinking it as I read the book (I also kept thinking about Scott McCloud's DESTROY! book from the mid '80's).